  Warning: Spoilers everywhere! Season 1 episode 10: Fire and Blood Baby Dragons (doo doo doo doo doo!) Season 3, episode 4: And Now His Watch Is Ended Dracarys!! From the moment Daenerys Targaryen steps out of the flames with three adorable baby dragons and claims her title as Mother of Dragons, we know that something BIG has happened in Westeros. Magic has returned to this world in the form of Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion and we've watched them grow up before our eyes. From their tiny, puppy years learning their 'dracarys' command on little skewers of meat and terrible warlocks (how cute are they?) to their tumultuous adolescence roaming the countryside past curfew until grounded and chained in the basement like any normal teenager to their full fire-breathing Lannister army decimating glory. We know these crazy kids and we fear for them as any other character we've come to know and love, and mourn their loss when something terrible happens, as it inevitably does on this show. So this week we honor each of our three beloved fire-breathing, wight-killing, high-flying dragons with a pile of fire-roasted wings in three tasty flavors. (And we're just going to ignore that thing that happened to our golden boy Viserion in season 7.) 
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   Season 1 episode 3: Lord Snow Storytime with Old Nan Season 6, episode 4: Book of the Stranger Better days and Old Nan's pies... When Old Nan wasn't telling little lords tales of the Long Night or keeping young Hodor out of trouble, she was busy making excellent pies for the lords and ladies of Winterfell. For House Stark, whose words are 'Winter is Coming' Old Nan was an important part of the Stark household, a keeper of two most powerful weapons, for there is nothing like a good story and a good pie to keep the bitterness of winter at bay. And as the Night King marches toward Winterfell at the end of season 7, don't we all wish the Starks had paid more attention to some of Old Nan's scary stories about the Long Night and those pale spiders big as hounds?
But the Brothers of the Night's Watch also know a thing or two about bitter winters. Manning a 700 foot ice wall is no easy task, but a good soup and good ale can keep one going through many a cold night. Sadly, the Night's Watch ale is apparently pretty terrible (priorities, brothers, I mean really!) but luckily, a bad ale can easily be turned into a decent soup. Turn that soup into a family sized pie (AS BIG AS HOUNDS!) and it can get downright cozy - even at Castle Black, right there at the foot of a literal wall of ice. This week we celebrate the sweet reunion of Sansa and Jon at Castle Black with a hearty, family-sized Beef and Ale Pie with Peas and Onions, a taste of happier times at Winterfell and a pie worthy of Old Nan herself.   Warning: Spoilers everywhere! "Drinking and lust, no man can match me at these things." Season 3, Episode 8: Second Sons Tyrion on wine, coq and death: Season 1, Episode 8: The Pointy End "It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it if it were easy." Clearly, Tyrion Lannister loves his wine. Many of Tyrion's scenes involve his thoughts on drinking, drinking games, spilling of wine, some unfortunate effects of too much wine, and thoughts on wine and death. But we come to find that beneath this pickled persona, this drunken patron saint of cripples, bastards and broken things hides a sharp mind, a knack for survival and a deeply empathetic heart. Tyrion Lannister is, in fact, one of the most underestimated heroes in all of the Seven Kingdoms. This week we honor Tyrion Lannister, current Hand of the Queen and self-proclaimed "god of tits and wine", with this classic recipe for Coq au Vin.
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The Hound Eats ALL the Fucking Chickens. Season 4, Episode 1: Two Swords Arya's sass level is out of control here and the Hound is absolutely loving it. What better match for the baddest motherfucker in Westeros than Arya Stark? Together, they are just pure delight. They encounter a band of baddies, Arya crosses a name off her list, gets her Needle back and she rides off on her own pony. The Hound - well, he gets his chicken and for one brief moment, all is right with the world. This is about as close to a happy ending as we get in Game of Thrones. We should all be lucky enough to get us some chicken, so here we are with this week's recipe for an excellent fucking chicken. 
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Arya demonstrates her killer pie making skills: Season 6, Episode 10: The Winds of Winter Now, let's talk about that PIE! After six seasons of this show toying with the Starks, Arya finally returns to Westeros like a BOMB. It's a satisfying moment, a gruesome moment, and a seriously disturbing moment as we watch Arya graduate from a loose cannon to a seasoned assassin. She's not the same girl who took her chances with the down and dirty revenge killings of Polliver and Meryn Trant, she's clearly giving some careful thought to the the method and manner of her vengeful return. A girl has a plan. And that plan involves the baking of a very special pie. |
